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Brighton Housing Campaign celebrates change in law and the end of ‘revenge evictions’

Besi Besemar March 30, 2015

Home Sweet Home activists from Brighton and Hove are celebrating a change in the law, banning the practice of ‘revenge eviction’. Campaigners celebrated their victory by handing out free treats and leaflets outside the Theatre Royal to tell people about their rights as tenants under the new law, which should come into force in October 2015. Campaigning by groups across the country, including Movement for Change’s Home Sweet Home campaign, put the practice of revenge eviction under scrutiny in November last year when the Tenancy (Reform) Bill was defeated in the Commons by two Conservative MPs who filibustered the bill.

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